Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boiling water hissed and heaved within dilapidated walls ; whence , also , the glare and roar of flames came issuing forth ; and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way , and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood . |
| 2 | Although ‘ orthodox ’ theory disregards orthogenesis ( often confusing it with rectilinearity ) the existence of ‘ laws of growth ’ was recognised by Darwin , although he failed to synthesise their role in relation to the environment and vastly overemphasised the power and importance of natural selection . |
| 3 | This is vital information for any understanding of prehistoric motivation and vastly increases the range of data available from a ceremonial site . |
| 4 | But if this food is in short supply and the whole population is in danger of dying out , then cannibalism makes sense : it maximises the food supply and vastly increases the chance that some at least of the tadpoles will survive . |
| 5 | These were the gig mills , which raised the nap on the cloth prior to shearing and vastly shortened the time needed compared with the old hand method , and shearing frames , which by mechanically aligning the heavy forty-pound shears reduced the time taken to a quarter . |
| 6 | Consigned for sale by Alexander Klee , grandson of Paul Klee who was given the painting by Kandinsky in exchange for one of his own , it is a sketch for ‘ Composition VII ’ of 1913 , now in the State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow , and widely considered the artist 's most innovative painting of that year . |
| 7 | But if the chance for a fair electoral system is lost at least we should have played to what strength there is in a single member system and properly recognised the individual communities of the U K. That chance has been missed without review and on that grounds I do n't believe this review should go through . |
| 8 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 9 | ( 3 ) Counsel rightly did not apply for a discharge of the jury following D 's evidence ; the judge gave a careful direction to the jury advising them not to be affected by what D said in relation to TJ and properly warned the jury of the dangers in identification evidence . |
| 10 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 11 | Unless Council has a change of heart , however , and both publishes details of the results of the consultation and properly addresses the legitimate concerns expressed , it may find the changes fail to win the backing of the people who matter — the nurses themselves . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The purchaser may have no confidence in either the vendor 's ability or the vendor 's intention to fully and properly disclose the liabilities of the company . |
| 13 | They were chatting ; Robyn returned to the hob and nervously added the rest of the ingredients to the sauce . |
| 14 | Owen reached through the branches to the bridle of Isambard 's horse , that stood tossing his head and nervously trampling the path . |
| 15 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 16 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 17 | She ogled the portrait of Beau Brummell , and intimately massaged the full-length marble statue of George IV . |
| 18 | Unlike the central character struggling in the movement of history in its unfolding , the communist narrator , distanced from the events themselves , coolly and relentlessly exposes the myths and illusions of the period with the hindsight of history . |
| 19 | Cranmer , who will be 78 on September 10 , is mentally alert and avidly follows the fortunes of his beloved Warwickshire through the newspapers . |
| 20 | We talked with our students about the freedoms of college life , and suggested that they might judge whether or not certain behaviour was ‘ age appropriate ’ by looking at the nursery nurses ( incorrectly and naïvely assuming the latter would unfailingly provide the models we sought ! ) . |
| 21 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 22 | Keep low and vigorously throw the rig across the board ( to the right ) before attempting to sheet in |
| 23 | We will be making regular reports to the AEA Audit Committee in the interim and vigorously pursuing the remaining actions as an integral part of our strategy for commercial success . ’ |
| 24 | The incoming government proposed to diversify Codelco 's production and vigorously opposed the new law , from which the article restricting Codelco 's operations was ultimately removed . |
| 25 | They championed measures for the relief of Quakers in 1696 and after 1710 , and vigorously opposed the Occasional Conformity Bills of 1702 – 4 and the Schism Bill of 1714 . |
| 26 | It works at a warm temperature and vigorously turns the sugars in the wort into alcohol and carbon dioxide , producing at the same time ripe fruity aromas that add to the pleasure of ale drinking . |
| 27 | As lord mayor ( 1732–3 ) he co-ordinated the City 's opposition to Walpole 's excise bill in 1733 , and vigorously defended the raucous jubilation that accompanied its withdrawal from the Commons . |
| 28 | Egerton Wake became the party 's national agent and vigorously pursued the policy of giving direction to the rest of the movement , through the organization of regional and local conferences . |
| 29 | In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years . |
| 30 | In 1962 he returned to Rampur and successfully contested the state seat to become a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly . |